Reading Is Fundamental

Health literacy is defined as “the degree to which individuals can obtain, process, and understand the basic information and services they need to make appropriate health decisions” (Jacobson). According to the National Assessment of Adult Literacy only twelve percent of adults in the United States are proficient in health literacy. This paper proposes that health literacy in the U.S. is dangerously inadequate and the problem is a serious deficit in our health care and education systems. People…

Reading is the foundation of everything “Whether you want to be a reading teacher or not you’re going to be one” says Patty Wagenknecht. She was a language arts teacher for 30 years after that she was on the School Board for 12 years. Patty says she was all over the Pettis county school district, at one point she was in charge of going around making sure that all the teachers had everything they needed to teach appropriately. She would go every summer to find some sort of class or seminar to…

This built on my belief that literacy is forever changing as individuals move through life, experience new things, and learn from people that they meet. We must understand the community in which we work in in order to have a better grasp on where the child comes from, how they have been taught, and what we can do to teach them in the most meaningful way. Avi (2010) explained a student and teacher conflict regarding misunderstandings in a classroom. This book showed what it was like for a…

foundational skills to be successful in the subject areas of Reading and Mathematics. Some of the common areas of weakness in reading that my students have demonstrated were in areas of phonics, phonemic awareness, comprehension, vocabulary, and fluency. I noticed that phonemic awareness and phonics weaknesses frequently occurred in my first and second grade students. Those students had difficulty matching sounds and letters, which can affect their reading and spelling. They guessed at words…

collaborate with classroom teachers to plan, teach and assess ELLs in the content area, therefore, reviewing this monograph was a natural fit for me. The monograph discusses the importance of teaching content literacy skills to increase proficiency in reading and writing across content subjects. A myriad of strategies are suggested throughout the article such as having students create…

Sites for Virtual Tour: Reading Rockets- Allows users to pick one of the big 5 ideas in reading and strategies to use to help children experience success in those areas. It also has a section in special education and a site for educators to compare the effectiveness of different reading programs. http://www.readingrockets.org ReadWriteThink- Read Write Think can be used as a resource for teachers and also provides interactive sites for students to practice comprehension, reading fluency,…

Mason Cooley once said, “Reading gives us some place to go when we stay where we are.” When I first learned to read I was in 1st grade. My first grade class was small, with small tables, a lot of students, but always had a nice smell to it. I remember trying to read there but I just couldn’t focus because the class seemed so lively. Going on through school, my teachers realized I wasn’t good at reading. It wasn’t until my 3rd grade teacher did I begin to understand reading. My 3rd grade class…

on Americas society. Young adults are the ones who will suffer most from the literature decline. Gioia uses a survey from the Public Participation in the Arts to show how younger adults are the ones who read the least amount. With younger people reading less older cultures will begin to slip away.The decline in literature will also have a negative effect on the business world. Gioia uses an issue from the wired magazine to illustrate how America's literacy decline…

(McDowall, 2010). The student therefore becomes the meaning maker; reading to understand, and deciphering language and clues from the illustrations, or visual features (Queen’s Printer for Ontarios, 2005). Educators can support and develop students meaning maker skills by: posing questions to their students to address literal and inferential interpretation of the text, discuss a text from a different point of view, and before reading a text, access prior knowledge with the use of a schema…

Skills I as a teacher am going to teach children how to read and write. I am going to discuss an understanding of how a child’s literacy develops, how to establish a literate environment, my teaching and learning strategies, and provide an assessment. Reading and writing are very important part of our children’s education. It also is important that a teacher understands how to provide a classroom with resources to accomplish their goals. Literacy Development Children develop literacy skills…